Ignorance

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Chapter Three: Were Better Off Without You
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Later that night, the night was still. The night sky was starry, and everything was normal: Ramens chasing after Bounty, and Bounty running from Ramens...people watching and cheering the Ramens on to kill the Bounty, which they do, and clap and congratulate as they watch the bodies get thrown onto the Pile of Burnt Bounty! I sat on the floor next to Jake's bed with Derek as we both listened to the argument coming from the room down the hall.
"So," Derek said. "We need to talk..."
"About?" I asked.
"The rag..."
"Oh god! You see, I was starteled and I packed up quickly not seeing if I had everything and-"
"Shh! It's okay, Hayley, really! I would've done the same. But after the head of the group found the rag, he smelled it twice, and tasted it remember? He tasted Jake's blood and said 'sweet blood'. Then sent the others after us!" Derek explained.
"Yeah, I saw it too. Maybe he was identifying it, nothing special." I suggested.
"But surely weird!" Derek replied.
"Yeah, but then again we've seen it before!"
"In what?" He asked. "When?"
"When we were kids, and we used to watch TV shows and movies together...there was this one where this girl likced this bloody paper towel and idenitified who it was." I explained.
"Oh yeah...that was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Yeah I remember, but then again, she was a machine and it was a movie!" Derek said and then something clicked in his head. "Maybe there not who they say they are!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"What if the Ramen kind is actually computerized machines!?" Derek said which alarmed me some.
"That's stupid!" Jake whispered.
"JAKE!" I jumped to my feet and he coughed trying to laugh.
"Hey," Was all he could manage. "Where am I?"
"You don't remember?" I asked. "We found this place,"
"Shelter, she means!" Derek said.
"Yes, shelter, and a couple, Rick and Zo, took us under there wing. Derek and Zo opporated on you, and now here we are! Wait a minute...Zo said you were supossed to be up the next day..." I said and Jake laughed.
"It is the next day!" Zo interupted.
"Whoa, is it really?" Derek asked and Rick nodded.
"Yup! But here's the hard part, we gotta make sure no one sees us as we leave this place!"
"Wait," I said.
"Leaving?" Zo finished.
"Yeah, Derek and I are gonna' go see if we can find something. Like a good killing of a Ramen or two...find some more food if your'e staying with us for a while." Rick answered and Zo smiled.
"Good boy." She whispered in his ear as she hugged him good bye. "Go find us something good!"
"Sure will!" Rick said and took the sand covered metal board off from the ceiling and looked at Derek. "Come on."
"Bye, Derek." I said and he smiled. "Be careful."
"We will." He said and they left to go on the hunt.
"Alright, Jake, how you feeling?" Zo asked Jake as Derek and Rick replaced the rock where it once laid.
"Good, weak, but good." Jake answered.
"Good!" Zo said and started looking for something.
"Need help?" I asked her and Zo shook her head.
"Nope, cause I just found it!" Zo took out a large plastic bag, holding some oat meal looking liquid.
"What is that?" Jake asked.
"This, is your medicine! I mixed it up straight from some...well, medicine! Last night, its the only thing that'll regain your strength!" She grabbed a cup off the shelf, and poured some from the bag into the cup. "Drink up!" She handed the cup to Jake and Jake looked at it disgusted.
"No thanks." He whispered, you could tell he was still weak.
"Drink!" Zo and I said in unison.
"Fine!" He said and began to drink. "It's actually not that-EW!"
"It's the aftertaste that's bad." Zo said and poured the rest in the cup. "Drink some more." And Jake did without hesitation.
"Now nibble on this till they get back." Zo handed Jake a bar like thing, which was wrapped up in a napkin.
"What is it?" Jake asked.
"A granoala bar..." Zo said and walked backwards towards the room she came out of a few minutes before. "I'm gonna wash up! I suspect you do the same. There is a bowl, in the other room behind you, Hayley, filled up with water. One is to get all soapy from, the other to rinse from. Jake, if the boys get back before were out, just tell them were in the rooms bathing!"
"Okay." Jake said, crunching down the bar he was given. "Got anymore?"
"Yeah, uh...that bag right over there Hayley," Zo pointed to the bag under the shelf that held the medicle supplies. "Hand those to Jake. Rick and I dont care for them that much. Eat as much as you like!"
"Thanks!" Jake said to Zo and I both as I handed him the bag.
"Bathing bound!" I smiled and walked off into the room I was instructed to and closed the door behind me. I locked it, and looked around the room. I saw a table with two bowls on it. Both filled with water. But one had a bar of soap on the side, and there were towels on the floor so you didn't soak the floor. And then you just used it to dry off. There was also a rag hanging on the side of the bowl with the soap next to it.
I took off my shirt, and pushed down my pants. I walked over to the two bowls, and began to wash in the warm water that was left out for us.
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(alright, this part is in Derek's P.O.V.-point of view-enjoy!)
We left the girls and Jake back at the underground shelter, I watched as four Ramens go by just as we hid behind a tree. After they passed, Rick looked at me with a worried, but yet concerned, look on his face.
"That was close." I breathed and he laughed softly.
"Yeah, now where was that cave you found those two love birds in?" Rick asked. "I wanna see if they lasted the night."
"Uh...its over behind that rock!" I pointed towards the rock, and Rick swiftly moved towards it, watching out for Ramens.
"Oh god!" He said and backed up some, covering his eyes with his hands.
" 'Oh god' what?" I asked, walking where he stood, and as I did I wish I didn't. Cause there, in the middle of the floor, lay the two naked bodies. A girl and a boy. There body was drenched in there own blood, and they lay on the floor. Bullet holes were in there backs, and cuts and knife slits were everwhere. They were tortured! Or so it looked.
"At least they died together..." Rick said.
"What makes you think that?" I asked and Rick started to walk inside the cave. "What are you doing?"
"Checking there I.D." Rick said, walked over to the pile of clothes and searched there pockets for wallet(s). "Nothing! Ramens took it already..."
"So sad...they loved eachother." I said and we left the cave for the final time.
We walked and walked until we stopped at a tree. "Up there!" Rick pointed towards a certain part up in the tree's leaves.
"What?" I asked.
"There's something...up...ther-" And Rick was pulled up through the tree.
"RICK!" I said and he laughed.
"It's okay. It's just Bobby! What's up Bobby?" I heard Rick said and they both laughed together.
"Good." I heard Bobby answer. "Oh no!"
"What?" Rick and I said in unison.
"Ramens, coming our way! Hurry, up the tree!" Bobby said and I jumped up the tree limb by limb. I was almost there when I slipped and fell back to the ground.
"SIR! We found a live one!" I heard a voice say. I got to my feet, and turned to see ten Ramen's standing in front of me. All there weapons pointed at me.
"Well," Another voice said. "Let's see who he is! Well, well, Derek Jones. You are easy to find! I expected a doctor to be hard to kill...but apparantly I was wrong!"
"Oh don't get too cocky yet!" Rick said jumping down from the tree and punching two Ramen in the face. "NOW!" He yelled and three men dropped from the tree Rick was pulled up to. One of them grabbed two Ramens by the arm and yanked them into the tree, making them hit there head awfully hard, falling to the ground with a groan and a thump. Another one, punched one Ramen in the gut, kicking a second in the leg making them both fall to the ground! The third, yanked the guns away from three Ramen, and punched them all in the throat making them cry out in pain. Then he threw them to the ground, slamming there head against a rock.
I saw the head of the group, looking shocked, scared, and confused on what was happening. His gun held to his side which stood out like a bright yellow beckon against a dark shade of blue telling me one word: Advantage! I grabbed the head of the group by the arms, and spun him into the tree. But he was too quick! He pressed up against the tree and kicked me in the jaw. I fell to the ground, spitting blood out of my mouth to the dirt earth floor.
"You've got guts, kid! And I like that!" The head of the group said, turning to face me. He looked down upon me and smiled evily. "Get up!"
I rose to my feet, and took a breath. Was this guy serious? Was this guy not gonna kill me until he fought me? Either way, I thought, There's a good chance I'll die!
I looked at him, and he just looked back at me.
"Come on!" Rick said, and a quick flash of the eye made a huge mistake. The head of the Ramen group charged me, knife gripped in hand, and he was about to stick it in me when he was knocked over by one of his men.
"Your welcome!" A female voice said, and as I turned I saw a head engulfed by blonde frizzy hair. She straightened it back, and pulled it into a pony tail. "Watch it!" She said, pushed me out of her line of fighting, and began to let the Ramens have it. She grabbed the one she threw at the head of the group to the ground, kicking the head of the group, grabbing his knife, and sticking it in the Ramen on the ground's neck. "That should...never mind!" She turned and threw the head of the group into bushes, and as she headed toward them she was kicked back into me, making us fall to the ground hard.
"Sam!" A voice yelled, and he tore his way through the crowd, sauntering over towards the bushes. He pulled out a gun, aimed it at the bushes, and pulled down the trigger. Bullets were flying in every direction. He made sure he got every part of the bush, incase the head of the group moved out of his line of fire, and then we heard a cry of pain and he toppeled out of the bushes, face down into the ground.
The man with the gun walked over to the girl, Sam, and helped her to her feet. "You okay?" He asked.
"I'm fine!" She replied, looked at me, and walked after the man with the gun, back into the fighting crowd. And I followed, joining the fight.
"Oh come on!" Rick repeated, shoving his palm on a Ramen's nose, making them fall to the ground instantly dead. "Easy!"
"Be careful!" Sam said throwing two Ramens out of her way. "There not who you think they are!"
"Oh whatever!" A male voice said.
"Shut up, Jeremy!" Sam said, sticking her knife into the gut of the two Ramens she threw to the ground.
"Oh don't start this again!" Jeremy said, blocking a fist to his face.
"Not! Now!" Bobby ordered and the fight continued in silence. Well except for the cries of pain.
"Can't wait till the King of Fours likes me more then the others for killing you!" A Ramen said, taking out his gun and aiming it at me.
"And I can't wait to kill the King of Fours!" Rick said jumping on the back of the Ramen and I ducked just in time as bullets started flying past me. I craweled by them, and tripped the Ramen just as Rick jumped off his back.
"Knife!" I yelled, and Sam threw me her knife. I turned and stuck it in the chest of the Ramen.
"KNIFE!" Sam yelled, turned and I threw it back to her. She kicked the last Ramen down and stabbed him in the gut.
We all sighed, and looked at the dead Ramens on the ground. "Wow!" Sam said putting her knife away as she cleaned it off with the arm sleeve of a Ramens jacket. "Bags anyone?"
"Give us half!" Rick said putting his weapon away.
"Theres only eight, four for us and for you!" Bobby handed two to me and two to Rick. "Be careful."
Sam took a good look at me, smiled, and climbed the tree they all dropped from with two back packs on her back.
"Alright. You too!" Rick said and started to walk back towards our shelter.
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"Were just leaving? Just like that?" I asked and Rick laughed while nodding.
"You've got alot to learn kid," Rick said removing the boulders hiding our shelter. "Once theres a fight, and or a kill, more Ramens come. There just like hornets!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Horents are like homing missles! If you throw a rock at there nest and dont get out the way, your dead or hurt cause they just zoom out of there nest and fly right where you were standing from throwing that rock. Can't beleive you didn't know tha-"
"No! I know that, but how are the Ramens just like Hornets?" I re asked.
"If there is a fight, and or a kill, more Ramens come!" Rick repeated, and it sunk it finally.
"Well okay. But wont they find Bobby and the others?" I asked which made Rick stop.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Well, the fight was right by the tree, so wouldn't other Ramens find them up in the tree?" I said and Rick threw the bags down the stairs, and put the boulders back where he removed them.
"Your right," He looked around, then stared at me. "Lets go!"
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(Alright, this goes back to Hayley's P.O.V.-Point Of View-Enjoy!)
I dried my hair, and checked myself in the mirror. Looked tons better then before! My hair looked straighter and not dry! My skin looked shinier and not diry like it used to. I then got dressed, and walked out to see Jake and only Jake. He was sitting on the side of the bed with a shirt on-guess Zo gave him a shirt to slip into-, granoala bar bag empty, glass of water in hand, he was staring down at the floor. Then he looked at me. I guess I made a noise or two exiting the room.
"Hey," Was all he said.
"Hey," I replied, sitting by him on the bed. "There is some water, soap, rag, and a towel in there if you wanna wash up."
"Sure..." He slowly rose to his feet, placing the glass of water on the bedside table. "I'll be back." He then slowly walked into the room I came from, removed his shirt, and closed the door. I sighed, and laid down, waiting for Zo, Jake, and the others.
Sleep overcame me, and took me by surprise! I was then in a deep sleep, not wanting to wake up even though I was having a possible nightmare. I then gasped, eyes darted open, I looked around the room, darkness. The lights were out, but you could still see your way around. I looked around and stopped as I saw a dark figure standing by the bed.
"Hey, Jake....What happened to the lights?" I asked, sitting up and leaning on my arm. "Jake?"
Nothing came from the figure. "Zo? Rick? Derek?" Nothing, I let my hand reach out and touch the person, and it jumped. Whirreled around and placed its hand over my throat. I was grasping for air! Which, for some reason, was really hard to find even though I took in a huge breath before the hand was against my throat. I grabbed at the arm, trying to pull it away from my throat.
"Hrlp!" I tried to say, but nothing came out. And then, darkness consumed me, and I fell back against the bed...dead!